Why does Truelock store locations with no alert?

[WJBertrand]

On two occasions, I've observed true lock to store a location when I did not hear or see any alert of any kind. It just beeps and displays "STORED". In one case it was on a road I had not previously been on since I got my 9500ix. Does it have something to do with the traffic camera database?

[djrams80]

On two occasions, I've observed true lock to store a location when I did not hear or see any alert of any kind. It just beeps and displays "STORED".

Your 9500ix detected the signal and stored it immediately, because this was the third time it had seen it in this same spot.

In one case it was on a road I had not previously been on since I got my 9500ix. Does it have something to do with the traffic camera database?

I've never seen this. You must have been somewhere close enough to this spot before so that the 9500ix recognised this as a previously seen signal.

[CJR238]

On two occasions, I've observed true lock to store a location when I did not hear or see any alert of any kind. It just beeps and displays "STORED". In one case it was on a road I had not previously been on since I got my 9500ix. Does it have something to do with the traffic camera database?

Wouldn't "just beeps" and "displays STORED" be something you heard and saw?

So it did alert to a stored location...

If AutoLearn sees a signal 3 times within a 1/2mi of another and its the same frequency it will store that signals frequency automatically. You can turn this feature off and manually lock out signals if you wish.

[mercedesman]

What if it locks out an area where a police officer is sitting?

[CJR238]

What if it locks out an area where a police officer is sitting?

You will be alerted if the officer is not running the same exact frequency as the locked out false. And as long as you don't lock him out while he's sitting there.

You will be alerted if:
1- he's running KA.
2- he's running a different 30MHz block of K band than the lock out.
3- You get alerted before the lock out area.

I will note that if AutoLearn is on it could add the LEO's radar to the lock out if you pass him in the same spot 3 times and hes running K or X band.

[swarga]

On two occasions, I've observed true lock to store a location when I did not hear or see any alert of any kind. It just beeps and displays "STORED".

Your 9500ix detected the signal and stored it immediately, because this was the third time it had seen it in this same spot.

In one case it was on a road I had not previously been on since I got my 9500ix. Does it have something to do with the traffic camera database?

I've never seen this. You must have been somewhere close enough to this spot before so that the 9500ix recognised this as a previously seen signal.

The same thing has happened to me. This was right after I got my 9500ci, and I was driving on one particular street for the first time. Suddenly out of the blue it said "STORED" - no alert, no three passes, nothing.

I've driven past that same location with my V1 and there is no false radar signal anywhere near there.

[CJR238]

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I've driven past that same location with my V1 and there is no false radar signal anywhere near there.

Your CI is much more sensitive than your V1.

[MEM-TEK]

If AutoLearn sees a signal 3 times within a 1/2mi of another and its the same frequency it will store that signals frequency automatically. You can turn this feature off and manually lock out signals if you wish.

Exactly. It seems to me that two things cause this. First is that another nearby location's false alert signal frequency was being detected at the the current false alert location, yet TrueLock finally figured out where that signal was coming from, in this case another nearby location. Second is that two locations which are rather close to each other have false alert signals which are on the same frequency. TrueLock will automatically split the area into two separate false alert locations, each with their own individual yet small lockout radius, since both locations have a signal source which is on the same frequency.

Anyway, this is just a theory based on some of my own observations. I have not taken the time to thoroughly test this theory since the ideal location for me to test this is located 75 miles away in my dad's town.

[WJBertrand]

On two occasions, I've observed true lock to store a location when I did not hear or see any alert of any kind. It just beeps and displays "STORED".

Your 9500ix detected the signal and stored it immediately, because this was the third time it had seen it in this same spot.

In one case it was on a road I had not previously been on since I got my 9500ix. Does it have something to do with the traffic camera database?

I've never seen this. You must have been somewhere close enough to this spot before so that the 9500ix recognised this as a previously seen signal.

Thanks for the reply, perhaps I need to clarify. When I said there was no alert, I of course, meant no radar or laser alert at all. I truely was on a road I had never driven on or was ever even miles close to on the second occasion. There's no way this was a third pass unless someone snuck my motorcycle out and rode there!

[MEM-TEK]

Thanks for the reply, perhaps I need to clarify. When I said there was no alert, I of course, meant no radar or laser alert at all. I truely was on a road I had never driven on or was ever even miles close to on the second occasion. There's no way this was a third pass unless someone snuck my motorcycle out and rode there!

I understood what you meant. The situation you describe is what I was talking about in my reply, above. Even though you hadn't driven on the adjacent road before, your 9500ix didn't give an alert because it realized "okay, here is where that particular signal, locked out at the other really nearby location, is coming from" or "okay, this very spot which is very close by the other locked out location also has a door opener with the same frequency as one of the frequencies which I already locked out at the other very nearby location."

I observed that my 9500i occasionally did this same behavior while I was testing its TrueLock features. At that time I was able to use Jimbonzzz's 9500i Commander software to look at the stored TrueLock data. The best I could figure is that, when my 9500i split one lockout location into two individual lockout locations, the new lockout location is stored in a sort of "learning" format which it later checks to see if the new lockout location is valid. About a week later I checked my 9500i's data and noted that now my 9500i had assigned one frequency block for the new "split" lockout location.